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Nominated MP Gideon Keter wants President Uhuru Kenyatta to waive copyright and patent fees. This he says will protect talents and innovations of young Kenyans.

Posting on his Facebook page, the youthful MP says he’s already in talks with the president about the issue.

*Gideon Keter at 680 Hotel attending the Universities & Colleges Student’s Peace Association of Kenya conference*

“I am in talks with HE the President to waiver copyright and patenting cost so as to protect talents and innovations of young Kenyans,” writes Keter.

Keter says young Africans make up more than a half of Africa’s total population but unfortunately they are excluded, marginalized and made into a lost generation. He adds its time the young people used their numbers to voice out their presence to be included in government offices and decision-making processes.

Hon. Keter also reiterated the sentiments while attending the Universities & Colleges Student’s Peace Association of Kenya conference at 680 hotel Nairobi.

“We will not faint till the youth are given platforms to propel the economy of this nation,” says Keter.

Nominated MP Gideon Keter wants all furniture used in government offices to be sourced locally.

Keter says this will not only empower Kenyan youth economically, but will also make attending Technical Training Institutes more viable.

“Replacing import of furniture with locally-made in government offices will empower Kenyan youth,” writes the legislator on his official Facebook page.

The jubilee party nominated MP from Kuresoi in Nakuru County adds that continued import of government furniture will continue denying youth with the requisite skills an opportunity to commercialize their skills.

“With nobody going for their products, the youth will never get an opportunity to commercialize their skills,” he says.

The proposal by Hon. Gideon Keter comes at a time when the government has placed a 3 month ban on logging. Keter says once the ban is lifted, he expects to locally harvested timber benefitted locals through value addition.

To make the proposal a reality, and to ensure wood products made locally are of international standards, Keter reveals that he’s working on an MoU to important specialists.

“I am working on an initiation of government to government partnership by signing an MOU to bring in specialists to train us to make quality products instead of promoting foreign economies,” he says